After I blogged last night Tarly was up and awake loads, including perking up quite commendably around 11pm and requesting custard with chocolate sprinkles :lol:. She finally went to sleep around midnight but was awake again a couple of times in the night, albeit fairly happy and not in any pain.
By this morning she was in pain again and complaining it hurt when she laughed, coughed and breathed which led us to suspect a pulled muscle but doesn’t really explain the acute pain she seemed to be in last night. She took to her bed around lunchtime having finally been persuaded to take some calpol and had a temperature and specifically pain in her throat and back. Ady was all for calling the doctor but as I said they would tell us to calpol her as a first action anyway and if she was too stroppy to tell us what was the matter with her she would be unlikely to respond to a doctor I’d rather wait until I felt something was concerning enough for proper medical attention and then take her straight to hospital. She has perked up considerably this afternoon, picked at an eclectic mix of food and although she is still awake now (11.30pm) she is in good spirits and this would be more to do with daytime sleeping than anything sinister. I think it probably is more than a pulled muscle – kidney infection? rumbling appendix? something was very wrong with her for a couple of hours last night so we’ll keep a close eye on her and see what develops. I’m a queer mix of mothers instinct mixed with utter faith in modern medicine with no room for homeopathy and little faith in a gp for much more than dispensing prescriptions I’ve already decided I need really. I know in the past my Mum and Ady have been cross with me for not taking the children to the doctors when they’ve felt I should have done but having bowed to pressure and always been either proved right in my diagnosis or simply asked ‘what do you think is wrong with them?’ and ‘are you worried?’ on more than one occassion I feel fairly confident that if something is serious enough to warrant more than a splash of medised I will be able to tell and take appropriate action (I have to say this same attitude does not extend to anyone else who I will always tell to go and see their doctor rather than complain about their ill health to me 😉 ) .
Anyway, in other news. This morning Julie and I went to the NCT nearly new sale, leaving Ady with Davies, Scarlett, Jack and Maisie. They had a good time by all accounts – Scarlett took to her bed (as her name suggests she should every now and then 🙂 ) and Ady led the other three in a rousing game of sound effect bingo before settling them all down infront of cartoons (oh how we corrupt our niece and nephew – he also offered them crisps and flapjacks :lol:). Julie got loads of stuff at the sale, I was more restrained getting a dress and couple of pairs of summer trousers for Tarly, an animal jigsaw, a Morph video and an IQ Science kit thingy for Davies, all of which were very well recieved.
We came back and Julie took the twins off home while I got ready for work. Ady and Davies spent some time playing with the IQ kit which contained various component parts to build a robot type creature using circuit making, cogs and gears and propellers. There was an instruction leaflet discussion kinetic energy and energy transferance but they seemed to rub along just fine without it. When I got home from work they’d built an impressive creation different to the instructions but in full working order and were playing at making it go forwards and backwards together quite happily.
Scarlett had woken mid afternoon and answered the door to me when I got home from work which was nice. I’d had an uneventful afternoon with some training, some pottering and a (fingers crossed) agreement to have the Friday of Kessingland off but I’ll get that confirmed next week. I’ve booked anyway including the Saturday night at the end in case I do have to come back in the middle to go to work so I’m feeling very upbeat about that. 🙂
And that’s probably our day really. Davies is being fantastic at the moment, nothing specific just very patient and mature about all sorts of things – worthy of mention mostly because I blog the gripes too :). Fingers crossed for a better nights’s sleep and not too early a morning – no idea what Scarlett will be up to doing tomorrow but our orginial plan of a whole day out looks fairly unlikely.
I imagine Tarly’s stomach pains are just this bug we’ve have, rather than anything more sinister! Don’t think there’s been any point in the last 4 days when there’s not been someone with a stomach ache here. I know I was in pain for at least 3 hours on Thursday night (until I finally fell asleep).
Can’t sleep tonight though, I guess my body thinks 13 hours last night was enough for two nights 😉
Buzz was just like that through the night. I was doing that conversation wiht myself about calling GP and waiting. Hope all’s well today.
Hope Tarly is okay and your day out isn’t spent in A&E. Sorry about missing your message. Childcare and money would have been a problem though so would have to have sent an excuse anyway.